(1)

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/761 (2) lays down the rules for the management of import and export tariff quotas for agricultural products managed by a system of import and export licences and provides for specific rules for that management.

(2)

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1988 (3) lays down the rules for the administration of import tariff quotas designed to be used following the chronological order of dates of acceptance of customs declarations (‘first come, first served’ principle).

(3)

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/2834 (4) lays down the rules as regards imports in the sectors of rice, cereals, sugar and hops.

(4)

In accordance with Council Regulation (EU) 2024/1652 (5), tariff measures have been introduced in order to prevent certain agricultural products (cereals, oilseeds and derived products) from Russia from continuing to enter the Union market on terms that are equally favourable to those applied to those products from other non-preferential origins.

(5)

The same tariff measures should be taken simultaneously in respect of Belarus in order to prevent imports to the Union from Russia from being diverted through Belarus, given its close political and economic ties with Russia, should the Union tariffs on imports of relevant goods from Belarus remain unchanged.

(6)

It is appropriate to reflect those tariff measures in Implementing Regulations (EU) 2020/761, (EU) 2020/1988 and (EU) 2023/2834.

(7)

Further to the additional CN codes for rice introduced by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/1998 (6), corresponding conversion rates for these CN codes should be fixed.

(8)

The Commission should, between the fixing of two import duties, publish the factors taken into account for those calculations in its website, to provide stakeholders with transparency in the cereals import duty calculations, while reducing the administrative burden on the Commission.

(9)

Implementing Regulations (EU) 2020/761, (EU) 2020/1988 and (EU) 2023/2834 should therefore be amended accordingly.

(10)

Regulation (EU) 2024/1652 enters into force on 1 July 2024. In order to ensure the effective management and timely application of the tariff measures for agricultural products concerned, this Regulation should enter into force on the day following that of its publication and should apply from 1 July 2024.

(11)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee for the Common Organisation of the Agricultural Markets,

(1)

the box ‘Origin’ of the tables referring to tariff quotas with order numbers 09.4120, 09.4121, 09.4122, 09.4131, and 09.4133 is replaced by the following:

(2)

the box ‘Origin’ of the table referring to tariff quotas with order number 09.4125 is replaced by the following:

(1)

in Article 1, paragraphs 2 and 3 are replaced by the following:

(2)

in Article 15, paragraph 1 is replaced by the following:

(3)

in Article 16(2), the third subparagraph is replaced by the following:

‘The amount of the fixed import duty and the factors used for their calculation shall be published in the Official Journal of the European Union. Between the fixing of two duties, the Commission shall publish the factors taken into account for the calculation on the Commission’s website.’.